2002

One of the more striking findings of a recent Markinor survey on voter attitudes is a marked worsening in perceptions of the government?s record on transparency and accountability. Voter endorsement fell from 52% to 35% between May 2000 and March this year.

President Thabo Mbeki’s state of the nation address next Friday, outlining the government’s agenda for the year, should be used as a kind of ceremony of national renewal

It is a time-honoured South African tradition ? as established as pap and boerewors. Appoint a commission of inquiry in order to seem to be doing something, and then hope the problem will go away.

TO lose one court battle is a misfortune, but to lose four in a row looks like blind obedience to orders from the top, worthy of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

FOR once in our region – in the case of Zimbabwe – journalists’ taste for hyperbole and doomsday simile appears justified. Our neighbour’s future is, indeed, on a razor’s edge.

Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s "tacit" licence to provincial health MECs to roll out Aids drug programmes in their provinces might be seen as a cautious step forward by government. It is nothing of the kind